The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-10 00:00:00

1 1 ' MARLBOROUGH CLUB COMPANY for th© anxious wa t c h ers ex h aus t e d with the pro. (Li.natted.) 13. Grattan-s creet, Piccadilly. tracted struggle. The officials at one of the stations NOTICE IS 1114,REBY CIVEN, that in conseqnence t n! i; which they passed perceived that something was the Alterations not bAng completed , the Opening of weong, and put up the danger signals. The train of be postponed until WEDNESDAY, the r 7 th da y t-u l 3 u , % i i;t, le6l. slackened its speed, but only for a time, and no danger appearing, away it went again. If it were possible to assassinate Mr. BRIGGS between the two stations of Bow and Hackney, cer tainly a dozen murders could be perpetrated between London and Peterborough. Happily, however, thanks to the number of passengers present in the carriage —not to the arrangements of the line—no fatal injury was inflicted, and th e luckless party, after passing, we should im ag i ne , the longest hour and a half of their lives, reached Peterborough in safety, and deposited their charge in the hands of the unwilling officials of that sta tion. This is by no means the first or second time that a madman has been encountered on a railway line, the excitement or the commotion attending such a mode of locomotion being apparently iestru. mental in developing the disease to a dangerous pitch. On the very line on which Mr. BRIGGS met his death there was last year an occurrence of this sort. Had there then been one instead of two gentlemen present there would certainly have been a fatal catastrophe instead of a dangerous aecident. Had there been two persons instead of five present in the carriage on Thursday night, or had two or three of those present been women or children there would with equal certainty have been another disaster added to the list of railway horrors. It is quite bad enough for railway passengers to be liable to all the risks to life cod limb incurred by the carelessness of officials, the recklessness of the men employed, or the short-sighted economy of the companies, but it is really too much, in addition to the chance of callisions or summersaults of trains racing three minutes after each other, of engines going backwards, and danger signals sus pended, to have the possibility of having to take charge of a dangerous lunatic at very short notice. How much longer is this state of things to go on ? We do not wonder that one of the passengers on Thursday night wished that a director of the company had been in the carriage, on SYDNEY SMITH'S principle; but in truth directors, shareholders, and Other officials are as much concerned in this matter as the general public, since they must certainly travel sometimes on their own lines, and are no more secure from the intrusion of a maniac, a thief, or an assassin than anybody else. Besides we can hardly suppose these gentlemen to be indifferent to the safety of their passengers, and cannot therefore doubt that they will busy themselves in introducing some immediate reform by means of which passengers can commu nicate with the guard, and the guard with the driver, without necessarily waiting for a station eighty miles off. The objection raised in some quarters that mischievous or nervous people would be con. stantly stopping trains would fall to the ground if the guard could pass along the carriages while the train was in motion, as is done abroad, and so ascertain what was amiss. Bis dat quo cito dat, and it will be a more gracious and popular part for our railway directors to play, and more in accordance with their general regard for the public convenis ence, If they comply with the request of the Board of Trade, and turn their immediate attention to the subject, than if they put off any alteration until the general dissatisfaction and uneasiness has extorted From the Legislature some compulsory enactment. By Order, S. 0. RA rT ENBURY, Hon. See. Registered Office, 6, John-srreet, Bedford-Row, W.C. 3,IARYLEBON-(TEImiTCELD)UB COMPANY iNuTICE IS }EMERY GIVEN, That the Dir ctors procied to the ski.,LaT of MEMBERS on TUESDAY next, and all applications of parties wishing to join must be forwarded to the Secretary on or before Twelve o'Ciock on Monday, the 15th day of Au?;ust, 1861. By order. S, 0. RAT I ETBURY, Iron. Sec. Rezistered Office, 6, John-street, Bedf,rd-row, 3/1 VE A R LI i: t v. _ ~D N • at E T C A E Lt . S EN UYLII.A, COVANT-GARDI Aldlie. Carlotta Patti, Mdl, e. Marie Krebs ; Mr, Levy, Mr. C,rr.,dus, and Ali Lea Sou-a Ile. Grand tielection trop IL TIWVATORE, &c. BAND OF ONE LIUN DBED PERFORMERS. Conductor, Mr, A.L.FRE 0 MEL LON. Promenade, .Amphitheatre :Stalls, and Amphitheatre, One On Thursday (To-morrow, 11th), a Mozart Night. ROYAL it IN CE S' THEATE.E.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferiy, Mr. Dominick Murray. Atter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, Fore-ter. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry blarston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss F.nny Gwynne. NTHEATRE -ROYAL, ADELpm._ 6010 Pronrlotor and Manazer, M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, TIIE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedf o rd,.Billlngton, Stuart, Stephen n ,Bonicr; Miss Woolg - ar, Ixelly. and Mrs. Bit !' ingion. At 10, ONE TOIJCIT OF NATURE. Penholder, Mr. Benjamin Webster ; Constance, Miss H. Simths. To conclude with a new Farce, called MY WIFE'S MAID. R. Phillips, and Mr.. Alfred Messrs. J. L. Toole , P. Bedford, Mellon. The Sixth Report of the Workhouse Visiting Society, which has just been published in the last number of its journal, will be found to be very in teresting, and the information contained in it can not but be conducive to the interests of the large class to which they refer. That there has been a marked improvement in the interest taken in workhouses generally is an undoubted fact, and it cannot be supposed that a corresponding benefit will not ensue in consequence of it. It was cer tainly time that the subject was taken up, sad great credit is due to those who have endeavoured to inaugurate a change in the extensive system which prevailed in too many of those places. Where so many unhappy and unfortunate persons are collected it is absolutely essential that the details and management of the institution shou's be open to the public for investigation and am _ meat, or else the result will inevitably pr'eve that great misery and dissatisfaction will 'prevail. It is a mistaken notion that has led • the managers and guardians to shut out all c'enamunication with the outer world, as the consequence of visitors hav ing access to these places is not prejudicial to the working of the establishment, and, indeed, in general conduces to order and good feeling pre vailing. It is, not probable that a large number of persons will work more steadily, suffer more patiently, or sustain their spirits more equah4, if they are shut out from all communion those of another sphere to their own. On the contrary, it has been proved that the beet and hap piest results have often occurred from the visits made to these refuges for the distressed and suffer ing, in the mind as in body. Unless personal in vestigation is made, it is impossible to form an adequate idea of the state of matters, and many who would very likely turn away from the dry details of published reports and the irksome perusal of classified information would be interested by the sight of the sad array before them. In the report here before us it is stated that ten years ago there was a great indif f erence manifested as to the con. dition of workhouses, the moral and physical state of their inmates was in a manner totally disregarded, and but lately a happier state of things has super vened, and many have volunteered their services to aid and assist in the efforts made to improve the condition and solace the afflictions of their unfortu nate brethren. The association lately formed in the Bishop of LONDON'S diocese for'ladies' work in charitable affairs has been productive of great good in this respect, for many visitors from workhouses have been supplied from this source. The inten tions are the same in all cases, but it stands to reason that the higher the station of the visitor the greater the services that may be rendered. In these pages we find some instances mentioned of the valuable succour bestowed upon some poor unfortu nate individuals through the kindly aid and happy instrumentality of some of the visitors. This proves that it is of the greatest possible benefit to all parties concerned that some communication be established between those well-favoured by the gifts of fortune and thaw, for come wise purpose, shut out from those gifts entirely. There is a ru l e which preve n ts the Guardians from contributing any estrus towards the removal of inmates. The sooner this regulation is altered the better, and in many cases it would be a decided saving to the establishment, eince the out lay could be made up in a short time, and, then, th e burden would be removed from its expenses at a trifling cost to the visitors who humanely inter- posed. A Ge rman woman and her children and an American sailor have been sent to their several des tinations. The services thus rendered have been of incalculable value, and yet they won!d never have taken place had visitors been precluded from enter ing the workhouses in question. The more class cnd &ass mingle in a befitting manner the greater the interchange of friendly feelings; and the more extensive the knowledge diffused among the higher ranks of society respecting the condition and Wants Cmnmence at 7. itoyAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Last Five Nights of the present Season. Crowded with rank and fashion. Production of an entirely ;Jew original Travestie of a very popular subject, by F. C. Burnano, Esq., entitled FAUST A.,.,11) MARGUERITE, in which Mr. and 3L s Charles stattiews will appear. The new scenery bS the celebrated artists, Messrs. Darason. and Sons ; the incidental Ba:let by °scar Byrne. Bc-engagement of those ce'ebrated and popular artistes, Mr. an i Mrs. Charles Mathews. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Piul Bedford, Mr. F. itobinson, Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Ftank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. EVERY EVENING, at 7 o'clock, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Miss Herbert, and Mr. F. Robinson. At a quarter-past 8, a new Travestie, entitled FAUST AND MARGUERITE: Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague, 31r. W. H. Eburne, Mr. W. Chamberiaine, and Mrs, C. Mathews. At ,0, USED UP. Mr. Charles Mathews ; Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Patti Joseph To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE. Mr. Ashley, and Miss Cottrell. On Friday, 12th August. Benefit, and last night of the pre sent engitemeni , of Hr. and Mrs. Chas. Mathews, a new and original t,omeuv, in 3 acts, by Arthur Sket hley, Esq., en titled HOW WILL THEY GET OUT OF IT, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. .nATHEWS will appear. pOUNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. ,J Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street, have now in stock a variety of WASHING bILK. DRESSES, sultatle for the country and seaside, and at the c earing-out pace of only X 1 I.s. 6d. the dress. JAY'S, 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already r sen 15 per cent., and it will soon reach a far greater per-tentage. Messrs. JAY, therefore, invite their numeruus patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally b. more Co >tly as the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 23s. per ton. I Double 20s. per ton. Top 02s. „ Deep ....215. Well screened and delivered within live miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, south Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCO TT, Sole Agent. T" THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing, the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, hau be had Every Evening of G. it. GL NIE, News AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. PHE LATEST EDITION of "'TIE SUN " supplied, as soon as published every Evening by IiESRY BROOKS, Ziewspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendista street, W. The Weather—Sun Office, Aug. 10, 1861. ~- THEII.:IIO3IETEr.. This day at Two o'clock 66 Barometer-29.98. WIND —W. ; strong breeze, and fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS D& .—Morning, Ga. 303a.—Afternoon, 6a. 50m. ro-A02.R0w.-Morning, 7h. 12m.—Afternoon, 7h. 40m. ri'ss' ) .l* LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1864. It 8!81319 that public interest is not to be Buffered to die out regarding the dangers incurred by the present system of railway travelling. The awful catastrophe on the North London Railway is still fresh in our recollection. The judicial investigation respecting it is incomplete. The murderer, if tracked, yet unsecured, when side by side with the report of the inquest comes the narrative of another railway journey performed at imminent risk to life, if not resulting in actual physical injury. Fate is certainly against the directors, shareholders, or other railway authorities who wish to avoid trou blesome and expensive changes, and whose motto is thu old favourite, "What we did with yesterday, We'll e'en do with to-day." The murder of Mr. BRIGGS was heard with the greater horror in our households because it was felt to be a catastrophe that might befal any happy home; and the same feeling attaches itself to the report which one of the gentlemen who took part in the journey the other night has furnished to the public. The thread of the story is, that five gen tlemen were occupying a carriage in the express train to the north on Thursday evening last.' Just before the train which started at 9.15 p.m. left Kieg'seeross the guard pushed into the carriage a man in. a sailor's dress, who was seemingly some what intoxicated—not a very pleasant companion under any circumstances for a journey from Lona don to Edinburgh. They had not proceeded far before the man, who was suffering from an attack of delirium tremens, declared he had been robbed, and rushed wildly about the carriage. At first the other passengers tried not to notice him, but when it came to launching out blows in every direction, and trying to get cat of the windows, it was time to interfere; but so strong was the madman, added to the strength given by the frenzy he was in, that it took four of the other passen g'rs to eecure him, and these had to exert their utmost strength. Oce of those present, an elderly gentleman, was naturally unable to render much assistance, and was seriously terrified. The others were not very well satisfied with their pos i t i on , as unwilling keepers of a lunatic, for the distance of eigh t y milea,without any means of securing him save a slender strap for his hands end their pocket hauderchiefe for his feet. " Neces sity is the mother of iuvention," and the necessity being urgent and the danger imminent, they made • the moat of these appliances, but it w as necessary for two of them to hold him down on the eeat all the way. They did not resign themselves to this position without a struggle) but their e ff orts to elerm either guard or driver were to'aliy unavail ing. The occupants of the next carriage heard the commotion, and endeavoured to second their efforts. Other passengers became alarmed, but shouts and screams were alike useless, and away rushed the train through the darkness, remorselessly bent on reaching P.terborough, the first station where the iron horse draws breath on his northern journey. At one moment; indeed, there was a gleam of hop e TI-IE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1864 of these outcasts from fortune and friends, the bet ter it will be for the diffusion of the first principles of Christianity and the welfare of the community at large. There are many reasons which might be furnished for the prevalence of this practice of workhouse visiting, and besides worldly considerations of benefiting the poor and ameliorating the social condition of the country, the best influences of human nature must surely plead for those who have been placed in so lamentable a position. It is an awful thing to reflect upon that the workhouse should be the receptacle of so tinny. There are hundreds now pining in its confines whom one thcught as little that they should ever enter its precincts as some of the effluent and some of their visitors. It is not always easy to foretell to what straits a person may be reduced through the thou• sand ills to which flesh is heir, and it is dealing out a very hard measure to say, that all who become paupers forfeit their claim on the friendly feelings of the :community, and must not expect to share more than the scanty portion allotted to them. For too many, alas, all assistance is useless; the passage to the grave may be smoother, and that is all; they have entered upon a dwelling which must henceforth be their home until they are called upon to enter the common home of our raoe. There are hundreds, however, for whom a timely aid would do much, and many others would be cheered on the dark road by acts of kindness and testimonies of sympathy. It would be a wiser, kinder, and more Christian course to regard this large array of paupers as a part of the great family of mankind, who are dependent, in a great measure, upon the kindness and attention of their more pros perous brethren for the comforts they can enjoy in their sad state of privation. As a writer in this periodical truly remarks, " The harvest is great bu t the labourers are few." It may surprise some of those who do not attend to such matters very parti cularly to learn that there are as many as seventy thousand recipients for outd oor re li e f at one time, and that the "annual number essisted by the poor . rates is calculated at two hundred thousand." Surely such facts speak volumes as to the importance of this subject, and it is essentially one that calls for attention and regard. There can be no greater mistake made than to shut out those driven by hard necessity from all intercourse with the better and more elevated of their fellow-being. They become hardened in iniquity and lost in corruption, and when they sink into those depths who shall say where the blame rests, and by what limits it may be bounded ? Have not the wealthy, the influen tial, and the powerful great responsibilities resting upon them, and do not the tenets of their religion inform them that they will have to render one day an account of their steward ship. There must have been something very faulty in the structure of that society which shut out the suffering and sorrowful from all chance of alleviation ;and prospects of solace, and made poverty an unpardonable crime. It is well that a better and truer spirit is gaining ground among us, and there is this satisfaction in the benevolent efforts now so strenuously made by the Workhouse Visiting Society, that their work cannot change with the convulsions of politics and the current of shifting events. The poor shall never cease oat of the land. We are all well acquainted with this fact, and it should quicken our efforts and urge on our enterprise to mitigate the evils and lighten the burdens of their crooked lot. It is very satisfactory to find that so much can be done to benefit the condition of the inmates of workhouses, and it is doubly gratifying to reflect that the beginning is always the hardest part of such undertakings. There is no reason to doubt or to despair of great improveminta taking place in e few years in thiF, important work, and it will b e a bl esse d day f .dr the distressed when all the workhouses of ,be me t ro . - polis are open to vi s it ors , i ns t ea d of' little more than one-third as at present. T o Ireip these who cannot help themselves is a pra f :deworthy endeavour, and it is also a grateful tr.,;h : to give the needful chance the desired opr„ortunity to the struggling who, without the friend in need, may sink into a hope less state 0 despondency. Naval and Military Intelligence, The 2d Life Guards, Col. Marshall, left the North Camp, Aldershot, yesterday for Windsor, the dismounted parties proceeding by the South. Eastern Railway. The 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), Colonel Sawyer, marched from Aldershot yesterday and Monday for Shorncliffe and Brighton—three troops to the former place, and headquarters and five troops to the latter. The A battery, B brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, under the command of Capt. Denne, marched from Aldershot yesterday morning for Dorettester. Four companies of the 87th Royal Irish Fusi leers marched from Aldersleott yesterday morning, at 7 o'clock, for Portland and Weymouth. The de tachment was under the command of Major Lord D'Arey Osborne, and it was to halt at Woolmer for the night and proceeded this aay on i ts route. The head-quarters and remeeining five companies of the regiment will l ee i e the camp to-mo rrow morn i ng for Gosport and Tipner, encamping at Woolmer one night, marching into Gosport on Friday. The :37th Regiment, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Francis Douglas Grey, left Aldershot Camp on Saturday morning for Diver. The regi ment marched from the South Camp to the North Camp station of the South Eastern Railway, where a special train conveyed it to its destination. The strength marching out was as follows :-30 officers, 35 seargeants, 21 drummers, 953 rank and file, 81 women, 85 children, and 6 horses. The bands of the let battalton of the 6th, 59:h, 733, and 87th Regiments accompanied the regiment to the statior. In addition to the detachment of non-commis sioned cfficers and men of the Royal Engineers selected for service in New Zealand,a farther num ber of Sappers and Miners were yesterday selected from the companies at head quarters, Chatham, in accordance with instructions from the Horse Guards, and placed under orders to embark from the colony as soon as the necessary amount of ton nage has been taken up for them by the Government. The 62d Regiment. under the command of Colonel Brett, embarked on board the screw troopship Tamar, Capt. Stirling, yesterday, at Portsmouth, and will leave this morning for Dublin. A number of the workmen employed on the iron frigate Achilles, 20, 1,250 horse power, at Chatham, have again commenced working extra hours, and are now employed each evening until 9 o'clock p.m., by order of the Admiralty, In anticipation of the mechanics employed on the iron-clad frigate Lord Warden, building at Chatham Dockyard, being required to work additional hours during the approaching autumn, the Admiralty have given directions for the necessary gasfittings to he erected at the slip on which the ironcased ship is under construction. The Achilles is expected to be en tirely out of the hands of the dockyard offi3ials by the close of the present month, when the mechanics still engaged on her wilt be transferred to the Bel lerophon and Loed Warden, both of which, it ie believed, will be completed and afloat by the end of the ensuing year. The Achilles commenced ship ping her sails from the dockyard yesterday. The screw steamship Himalaya, 6, Captain E. Lacy, was spoken, all well, off Plymouth, going down Channel, by the pilot cutter Alarm, No. 7, on Saturday at 2 p. m . The Orontes, screw troopship, Capt. H. W. Hire, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Bermuda, after a passage of 13 days, with the 39th Regiment on board, under the command of Col. Munro, C.B. The regiment will be disembarked this morning, and be forwarded on from Portsmouth by special train to Aldershot. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] PRUSSIA. ALTONA, AUG. 10. It is asserted that Prussia has asked Hanover the reason for the Federal execution troops having entered Lauenburg. The Alton-ter Mercur of to•day says—" The de claration of the clergy and gentry of Kiel, after expressing a conviction that the question of here ditary succession would be solved in accordance with the rights of the Duchies, advocates the imme diate establishment of a common government for Schleswig-Holstein: It further recommends that the administration of the diplomatic, military, and maritime affairs of the Duchies should be merged into the Prussian administration. BERLIN, AUG. 10, Morning. The Spenersche Zeituny of to-day says : " We learn that the Hanoverian representative at the Federal Diet has been instructed to declare that should the Diet be unable to obtain satisfac tion for the events which have taken place at Rends burg, and which directly affect the authority of the Diet, Hanover should withdraw her troops from Holstein to avoid the possibility of a second viola tion of Federal rights." SPAIN. MADRID, Auo. 9. The Noticias of to-day says " On account of the alarm existing at Madrid the Government will take measures to maintain public order." The Ex-Doke of Parma has arrived at LA Granja. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. MALTA, AUG. 10. The Ceylon leaves at 2 a.m. for Marseilles and ,he Ripon at 5 a.m. for Southampton. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Syria from Southampton, 27th July, reached Malta on the sth instant at 10 e.m , and left at 6 p.m. for Alexandria. The Baroda from Marseilles, on sth inst., arrived at Malta at 10 p.m. on the 7th inst., and left at 4 a.m, on the Bth for Alexandria. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 6. The text of the Danish Constitution enjoins that At noon the members of both Houses assembled in the saloon of the Folkething, the foreign corps diplomatique taking up their stations is the am bassadors' gallery. Shortly afterwards the King entered, accompanied by the Crown Prince, the Ministers, and the Court, and, taking his stand in front of the throne, read the following speech : "To our faithful Danish Rigsdag, sour Royal greeting. " Although the Session, to which we have sum moned our faithful Rigsdag in accordance with article 27 of the Constitution, must bo immediately prorogued on account of circumstances, we have yet felt the necessity of opening thi s . R; ;iattag in person, and of as sem bli ng round us the chosen of the people. " Notwithatan?:,ng the courage and end urance with which our valiant army and fleet have fought to upb '.;111 Denmark's r i g h t an d honour, and not ' w'..thstandi ng the readiness with which the entire r people has borne every sacrifice for the salvation of the country, the war waged against us by a superior force will nevertheless compel us and our people to the hoaviest and most grievous concessions. For, as all Europe leaves us without assistance, we have seen ourselves forced to yield to numbers, and to endeavour t o t erm i nate a war, the continuance of which under ex i s ti ng c i rcumstances, would only entail our beloved people and oountry greeter IP:dses and misfortunes, without holding out the prospect of any improvement in our position. "Nevertheless, we w:I1 look towards the future placidly in full reliance upon our faithful Danish people, entertaining tte firm hope that brighter days will not fail if King and people unite to heal the deep wounds inflicted upon our beloved country. " We rely especially on you, gentlemen, the elect of the nation, to labour faithfully with us fcr the welfare of the country, and wish you in all your endeavours the blessing of heaven " His Majesty then quitted the Chamber, scum panied by the cheers of the members. FRANCE. BOURsE, August 9.—The market has been rather more animated, with a further slight improvement in prices. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 45c, Mobilier have advanced to 1,015 f. Railway Shares firm, with a slight rise on some of the lines. The market closed as follows: 41 per Cents .. 94 60 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 40 Credit Mobilier 1010 Do, end month 101 1 25 Bank Shares 3395 Credit Fonder Roman Italian Loan 6B 15 Do. end month 6B 25 Dittu Threes New Mexican .„.. 56 25 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes.... -"*" Home Debt ...... Deferrel ........ RAILWAYS. Cash. Accoun t. 8 85 882 60 980 985 -- 915 917 50 Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto So uthern .. 640 -- . : 641 25 Western - Eastern Sardinia n ........ 348 75 • • 346 25 Austrian Lombard 441 535 _ 537 50 North cf Spain ...... 25 .. 4 4 1 25 Saragossa .. 605 -- • • 503 75 Ditto to Barcelona .... 235 -- .. 240 —. DROWNED WHILE BATHlNG,—Franoino Mauer°, assistant underwriter to the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company, was accidentally drowned on Friday, the sth inst., while bathing in the Thames, off Richmond, where he was spending the summer months. Only one man was near to witness the sad disaster, which took place at D u k e ' s.hole, a place 15 f ee t d ee p, and well known to the i n h a bi tants, but which, it is to be regretted, was not marked out as a warning to bathers. The deceased gentleman was very well known at Lloyd's, and was greatly beloved and respected. , A WIFE SOL D FOR A SHILLING. —On Monday Hannah Parkes, boatwoman, was indicted at the .Jhester Assizes for unlawfully marrying Samuel Thomp son, her former husband, Thomas Parkes, being then alive. A witness named Rachel Woodward, the wife of a boatman, stated that the prisoner was sold for a shilling in "Brum magem" fair, where she was taken with a halter round her neck. This was done by Thomas Parkes, her alleged former husband, and consented to by the prisoner, who had " had enough of him." She was bought by Samael Thompson, who married her, and afterwards Henry Noon took her to wife. These marriages took place some years ago, since which time Parkes had died. The jury returned a verdict of acquittal, THE SLATE QUARRIES OF WALES. —The demand for slate continues far in advance of the supply, and where good slate is produced there are 12 months' orders on the books at the piesont time. A number of companies hive recently been promoted with the view of commencing operations on new ground, but, with very few exceptions, complete failure has been the remit. In ono instance no less than £30,000 was expended, and the deluded share holders found in the end that there was no vein of slate whatever in the property, and, in fact, they might as we:l have thrown their money into the sea. Many of the schemes that have failed were no doubt promoted with the express object of securing "preliminary expenses," and after the promoters had secured their bait nothing more was heard of them. Certainly, some half a dozen substan tial projects have been brought forward, and, with the good and honest management which prevails, the share holders have a fair expectation of getting a reasonable return on the capital. Slate quarries, like mining generally, require a special knowledge of the geology of the district, or else disappointments are pretty certain to be the ulti mate result. after new elections have taken place the Itigsdag (or Legislative Assembly for the kingdom alone) shall be convoked within two months at latest. The Rigsdag therefore met proforma to-day, unexpected solemnity being imparted to the proceedings by the King opening the session in person with a speech from the throne, LITERATURE. Charles Dickens's New Serial Story. Our• Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. No, 4. Chapman and Hall. A wonderful number is this Number Four of " Our Mutual Friend." It is subdivided into three chapters. The Eleventh being descriptive of "Podsnappery !" The Twelfth revealing to us what the Honest Man himself evidently regards as the sacred droppings of " the sweat of his (the honest man's) brow !" Chapter the Thirteenth recounting with all the vividness ef reality " The Tracking of the Bird of Prey !" To which of these three subdivisions of the August instalment of " Our Mutual Friend," we should have to give the palm were we required to do so, we hardly know —and we say this, moreover, after having read them through (as, in truth, wo usually do in regard to these green numbers) twice consecutively. Pod snappery, we may be certain already, is a phrase that will stick. It is a something distinctly generic. In its way, too, it is in a certain sense socially, as a thing generic, here in England, one almost, we might say, among our National Institutions. Podsnappery, in effect something we have known, every one oe us, more or less inti ma t e l y , a ll our l i ves. And yet it is a something, too, for all ' Let, that, until now, has remained altogether nnnottesd_at any rate wholly undescribed—euntil at length, in one of his happy moment:, of observation, Mr Dickens has "earned the len.; of his marvellous camera upon. it, hitting it off in its ev ery s h ade and outline to a very hair, to the 'veriest nicety ! The precise flourish of Mr. Podsnap's arm, sweeping everything behind him, and consequently clean out of ex istence—don't we recognise it upon the instant ? The "young person," again, she who is described —in a sense wholly opposite, of course, to that which might be implied by any slangular applica tion of the phrase—she who is referred to, as in a msiner " all cheek"—a human institution perpee tually liable, so to spesir, to burst into blushes at any or indeeu at no provocation —are we not in timate with her long ago as a sort of social riddle of the Sphinx, defying ail attempts at any rea sonable solution of it? "There appearing to be no line of demarcation between the young person's excessive innocence, and another person's guiltiest knowledge!' The deliteation here of all the perfectly new and yet leerfectly familiar forms and hues of Podsnatee ery is thoroughly enjoyable and laughter . , ene-sing. The Company, the Plate, the definition of the Fine Arts according to the rules of Podsnappery —the irresistibiy ridiculous application of that de finition to the quadrille figures as danced in the Podsnap drawing-rooms—pl. Getting up at eight, and shaving close at a quarter past; 2, Breakfast.. ing at nine; 3. Going to the City at ten; 4. Coming home at half-past five; 5. Dining at seven, and the grand chain l"]—the "furniture walk," like a " revolving funeral," after the perform ance of the Podsnap quadrilles—the " haunch of mutton vapour -bath" --the " bathers " in it—the " well-conductell automaton " who is hired to play the pianoforte—the Foreign gentleman who is treated like a deaf child—who is talked to about London Londres London "—who is told " We do not say Ozer, we say Other —the letters are T and H, their sound is th, th ! " The rash gentleman who startles everyone at the dinner table by essaying to talk to this unfortunate Foreigner, with a sudden " Esker "—and then stopping (with the eyes of all Europe upon him)--" lie, oui," says the foreign gentleman, so addressed, "Est-ce que? Quoi, done ? " Nothing earning of it, however, even under that embarassing encouragement— the gentleman with the lumpy forehead who has cried ".esker" finding nothing more than "esker" behind the lumps, and so lapsing into silence. The fun of all this, the extravagant humour of it, dis cernible at every minute touch in these wonderful little sketches from the life at the hands of our master...humorist—we commend not with words, but with laughter. The very arrival of " the Nutmeg "—as though it were a cannon-ball bouncing open the drawing-room door, and so dis solvheg the preceseion of bathers in the midst of their funereal walk among the furniture--tide very arrival of " that fragrant article, dispersed through several glasses of coloured warm water," rises, as one may say, to the dignity and importance of an event in the records of Podsnappery ! Won derfully different in every way is the account sub sequently given in this number, of the way in which the already tangled skein of the plot is beginning to be rapidly, yet further and more inextricably, tangled together. The character of the whole story__ according to our estimate, meaning that most de lightful fellow, the nonchalant Barrister Eugene (a perfect original and a perfect gentleman !)—e B h ere brought out, more vividly than ever, to view, and is already taken to our hearts, permanently, as one among the very best of Charles Dickens's creations. " My respected father," otherwise M. R. F., sounds military, says Eugene, " and rather like the Duke of Wellington"---" Without lime my existence would be ursilluminated by a ray of hope"---" Two burglaries and an assassination under the meaner, circumstances"--" In reply to the question of my honourable and gallant friend, I can have no hesi tation in replying (it not being inconsistent with the public service) that those accents were the accents of the T'other Governor" —any one who has read this new number of " Our Mutual Friend" will recognise as reminders of the in imitable touches of quiet humour imparting a very charm to that delightful character—Eugene! Happily though Marcus Stone augured by his ar tistic pencilling of the first illustration in No. 1. "The Bird of Prey," he has been getting, since then, simply worse and worse as an illustrator of Dickens, vice Phiz and Crnikshank--the most characterless among all his embellishments to "Our Mutual Friend" being these two vapid woodcuts in Part 4, entitled respectively " 'Waiting for Father" and " PodenaPPB7'n Trifles for Travellers. By Robat Henniker, M,A. Pp. 150. Murray and Co. Whether the third word of the title of this volumette refers to Travellers on the Road of Life who may be in quest cf a few apophihegms,or to mere everyday Travellers by Railway who are in quest of a little light reading with which to wile away the tedium of a long journey, there is no chance whatever of uncertainty in regard to the meaning of the first word of the title, namely, " Trifles." Ana it is a phrase that is here not only perfectly com prehensible, but precisely applicable. The con tents of the little book are, to a t, just that— viz., the merest Trifles. They are so many literary waifs and strays (trom the same pen all of them) — collected together, for the nonce, from such out of the way corners as an odd column here or there in the dilnwick Mercury. Added to this, they are, in one sense, about all things in general, and yet, in another, about nothing at all in particular. If there is wisdom in them, it is certainly la sagesse en pan loupes. The costume of the writer is a sort of scholarly deshabille. There is a taste of Greek upon his title page and a flavour, too, of Latin. He deals here, moreover, in the body of his tiny work, with not a few old saws, applying them sometimes rather aptly by sundry modern instances. The Trifles of Mr Henniker are at any rate of this value, that they are hardly to be described as— unconsidered. They are sometimes well thought out, and are--some of them at least-wintheir little prattling way, entertaining. Select Anecdotes, from Various Sources. By J. S. Laurie. Pp. 243. 'Thomas Murby. Another charming little volume has here been added to a delightful series, oee that we have already bad seven good reasons to commend under the title of " Laurie's Shilling Entertaining Library." These seven good reasons being the issue in the series, one by one, of pocket editions of-1. Robinson Crusoe-2. Christmas Tales-3. History of the Plague 4. Guiliver's Travels —5. Sandford and Merton 6. Evenings at Home 7. The Swiss Family Robinson. Added to which seven rare old favourites, very pets of little books as they are--we have hen?, in the eighth instalment of the series, these "Select Anecdotes." And even now—" there be pippins and cheese to follow," as Sir Hugh Evans says, while standing with his table napkin The stone having been laid with the usual formalities. The Lord Mayor then addressed the assemblage as fol ' lows :—Fellow- citizens, already you have placed me under many obligations to you. I owe you much, because you I have bestowed much. Highly as I prize the many favours hitherto conferred upon me, I value the trust reposed in me this day as the highest honour of them all. lam proud of this day because I recognise in it tie dawn of a new era in the history of our country. (Loud ches2rB-) I am proud of the people—the virtuous, the peacer;bier and the civilised people of Ireland, for they have proeeed fa the world by their conduct to-day that the principles and teachings of their great leader still guide their counciis and still direct their movements. (Cheers.) The vast assemblage of this day, recalling as it does the monster meetings of twenty years ago, augurs well and hopefully fur the future. The eitizens mingled with the people from the proe;inces, who same in myriads from the north and south, and from the east and west, obedient to the magic sound of one word, and animated by one elec tric feeling—that word, O'Connell; that feeling, grati tude. (Loud applause.) The people have met to hundreds of thousands, not for the parpwe of paying homage to some renowned adeniral—not for the purpose of perpetuat ing the fame of some general—of one of whom it was truly said— " Whose game was empire, And whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth, Whose dice were human bones." No, but you have come here to offer the tribute of a nation's homage to a chieftain who successfully led the Irish people through blocdlesa victories and to peaceful triumphs, who laid the foundation of whatever we enjoy of civil and reli gious freedom, and upon whose banner we may read the following lines : " We want no aid to barricade, To show a front to wrong; We have a citadel in truth, More durable than stone." (Cheers ) We aro hero tc-day assembled in vast numbers, as of old, without the least infraction of the law, and with out disturbance and disorder of any kind, thus exhibiting a living testimonial to the genius and teaching of our de parted tribune—of him whose potent voice so often roused, and whose wisdom so long guided our nation through many struggles and to wan) , triumphs. (Oheers.) Emancipation, civil and religious liberty, proudly and nobly emblazon the scutcheon et O'Connell; but that which was the dearest wish of his heart, as it was the chief aim of his liee, re mains yet to be inscribed on his shield—need I say that I allude to the legislative independence of his native coun try ? I congratulate you upon the success of this day's great demonstration. (Hear, hear.) It reflects the highest honcur upon the different bodies that took part in it, and it endorses the words recently spoken by the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, that our population, city and country, presents a marvellous immunity from crime and disorder (hear, hear), I may venture, then, to suggest to you to return to your homes in the same good order and good fellowship. Remember that sobriety, unity, andlfra ternity are the characteristics of a great, brave, and gene rous people (hear, hear.) Remember that, in laying this first stone, W 3 renew our pledges to be faithful to the prin ciples and teachirg, of O'Connell. If this be cur resolve, it we act together es one mass, we shall lay the foundation of a regenerated and prosperous country (loud cheers.) The assemblage then separated. , 'L, I karkillat hER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, August 9. The Queen arid Princess Louiee walked and drove yesterday. Mr A. Helps arrived at Osborne, and had the honour of dining vith the Queen and Royal The Prince of Wales, attended by the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, Lieut. General Knollys, and riltT3r Teesdale, went to the Licensed Victuallers Asylum, near the ad Kent-road, yesterday morn ing, and inaugurated the statue of the Prince Consort, recently erected '-ta the grennds of the asylum, of which ho was patrol. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the niece and Princess of Wales at I‘l%ri 4 borough House, Mr Shepard had the honour of submitting his breechlcek rifla to the inspection of the Prince of Wales. Her Majesty and the younger members of the royal family will take their d ‘parture on the 28th or 29th inst, for Edinburgh, on their way to Balmoral, where the Queen and Court are expected to remain two months. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will leave Marlborough House this evening for Abergeldie Castle, NB. Their royal highnesses are ex pected to remain in Scotland from six weeks to two months, and then take up their residence at Sandringham. The Duke of Wellington is expected to reach Carlogie, his shooting-box in the Highlands, today. T he noble duke will entertain the Lord Chief Justice cf Eng land and a large party at his shooting quarters in Scotland during the season. The Earl and Countess Russell and family Wil l leave Pembroke Lodge, Richmond, in a few days, for 1,17 ° . burn Abbey, Beds, where the noble earl and countess wil l receive a succession of friends. The Eon! of Aberdeen has arrived at Haddo House, Aberdeenshire, where the noble earl will probably stay several months. The Countess of Powis'and Lady Lucy Herbert leave town to day for Powis Castle, near Welshpooli for the autumn, The Earl and Countess of Lincoln have returned to town from Brighton. Vricount and Viscountess Stratford de Redc and the Hon. Misses Canning have gone to Wilton House' near Salisbury, on a visit to Lady Herbert of Lea, boaire leaving for Gotland. The Marchioness Dowager of Lothian and Ladl Alice Ker purpose leaving town early next week on a tour of visits in Ireland. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westmeat h have left the Portland Hotel, Southsea, and have taken residence on Clarence-parade, Southsea. The Earl and Countess of Stradbroke are ex pected to arrive at Glensberry Lodge, the family seat in thq county Waterford, from Henham Hall, 4Suffolk, to re*idG a few weeks, as usual, on his lordship's Irish estate. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Aug. 9,—,The market for shipping yarns has been exceedingly flat, with little or no business doing fur any quarter. To effect 5 51° spinners would have to take lower prices. Th e quietness of the Liverpool cotton market and th e dearness of money are among the chief causes as' signed for this state of things by commercial men' The failure of a London house in the East India trade has no doubt added one to many reason s for caution among b u y ers . I n h ome tra d e yar ns bug' ness has also be en qu i e t. Thi s fl atness seems t° extend to ne a rly a ll courts an d qua li t i es of Ya=n; and Lanc as hi re manu f acturers h ave b oug ht exceed ingly little this morning, There is a slight giving way where cffers are made, but buyers a ppear to b e very cha r y a b out making offers. Advise s from Calcutta of J u ly 16 spea k o f mu l e tw i s t and gray shirtings as impro v i ng , b u t i n t h e prese nt condition of things here th e news appears to pro d uce lift e or no effect, and business app ears t o b e pret ty ne arly suspended both in good s f or h ome consumpt i on a nd for export. The cloth Market is quite stagnant. The higher rates of discount prevent the possibility of business just now even in the descriptions of cloth for which the Indian advises are favourable enough otherwise to induce it. Manufacturers are endea vouring to sustain prices because they see no prose pest of cheaper cotton, and the quotations are much the same as last week, though, probably, a litt le , weakness would be f oun d i n cases were se ll er s 13 01 ' stocks ; but buyers era so little disposed even t° inquiry that it can hardly be said there have been offers of a nature to test prices. So far as bole nese with India is concerned, buyers feel a natural repugnance to discounting their bills a t 10 per cent. in crier to lay out such dearly` bought money in cloths at the high rates now prevailing, and th e y a b s t a i n a l mos t altogeth er from inquiry ; so that the business of the day in this descriptio n o f goo d s h as b een almost n i l. The quotations of all kinds of yarn and cloths made from good long stapled cottons was highe r at the beginning of the present m on th than it h ad ever been before, even during the cotton faln i ": and merchants hesitate about l a yi ng ou t their aw rie : in such high priced goods und er p resen t unfaveigr' able circumstances. LEEDS, 9th.—The markets in the cloth halls to s day have been of a mod e rate c h arac ter, bo th as regards the attend ance o f b u y ers an d th e aal°lltit 0L business done. Considering the amount of 11 er" e seasonable goods in the c o l oure d c l o th hall, a to ably fair bulk changed hands, and late prices we re , well supported. I n th e w hit e c l o th h a ll a few good parcels of hairlists, pilots, witneys, and. e ther heavy fabrics met with p urc h asers . Th e trade in tn a warehouses is reported to be generally quiet so far this week, but the manufacturers keep in the same state of cheerful activity which we have had some time to notice. The wool trade is steady, and the purchases at the current sales of colonial. wools ill London are coming to hand. The condition and quality of the wools are average. Prices are hate- NOTTTNGLIAM, 9th.—'There was again a very small attendance at this Exchange-hall to-day, an d the demand for lace yarns was decidedly slow, an d tile prices of last week were barely maintaine d. Hosiery yarns have also given way slightly in pric d ' Silks about the same as neretofore. The dem sl3 , o for brown nets was slow, but full late rates obtained without difficulty. ROCHDALE, Bth. —The flannel manufact urers keep well employed, and for both plain and foci' goods there is a steady demand, large bulks b ellig weekly delivered to order. To-day, however , lat er a last was not quite so much activity i n /he market a - week, which may partly ari se f rora the tight a° n larg e/ the money market, and f rom th e f ac t that 13- stock of goods are offered, Prices r uled verYlords. and in some instanc e s th e t en d ency was 11 P Wo ol The Yorkshire goods c on ti nue t o se ll we l I. ee k, market is without material change shwa la st and prices and demand are alike steady. in his hand, under Master Pago's flowery porch in the old street of Windsor. Yes, here, too, " there be pippins and cheese to follow" —for is there not promise in 9 and 10 of " The Pil gr i m ' s P ro gress" and the " Vicar of Waktfield ?" Published at the outset by the Messrs. Longman and Com pany, Mr Laurie's Library is now issued from the press at uncertain intervals by Mr Murby, the school-book publisher of Bouverie-street. White friars. TEE O'CONNELL MONUMENT, DUBLIN, Tuesday Morning.—From the earliest hour yesterday morning the streets of Dublin were thronged by persons wearing green sashes and rosettes, taking up places on the footways, from v.hich they would have a good view of the coming procession, or repai;ing to the various places of alleraetant in d rae c z dw v i o e:il s hbo f o t.l.hi r daa t l l y.e s d e d. s r e e sT v s e h, r al trades. The p eo pl e were The and rail w v a e 3 r 7 y s generally i r n e s I p a e r e g t numbers during the morniog, and serval of the c aratry municipal contingents only ta— taFrived an h our b.f ore t h e demonstration b egan, II svis green the asso c i a t ed assembled at Stenhen's 'erades took the le a d o f the 'proces sion, and a- -' _suing so far p asse d a l ong the route arranged, _...ved opposite the City Hall at a quarter to one o'clock, when the first banner to pass, profusely decorated with green, had an inscription to the "Memory of O'Con nell—the Immortal Liberator," the band which followed it playing a solemn air. The men bearing it, and the greater number of the processionists, wore rosettes of green, some times intermingled with white ) but most unrelieved by this addition. Sectional banners seemed to mark stages in the procession, and these all bore the harp and cross. The plasterers, carpenters, bricklayers, butchers, tailors, letter printers, naval artificers, and the various other trades, numbering above 20, were headed by carriages sad four, and banners, ornamented with miscellaneous patriotic and eeotarian devices. It was remarkable that a number of the trades carried digs on which were displayed "Home Artis" and "Encourage Native Sculptors"—inscriptions meant, doubtless, to suggest to the committee that the orders for the statue should be given to an Irishman and a resident. Differences of opinion have existed among the promoters of the movement on this point, which are not yet set at rest. The regular brick and stonelayers displayed a picture of the Bank of Ireland —" Oar Old House at Homo "—sur mounted by a harp. The flag which followed bore the in scription, " Stand together, Brothers all," and " Oh, for the swords of former days," with a man bearing a pike, and a round tower in the background. At this point the various Roman Catholic tontiste and benefit societies, under the patronage cf St. Vincent de Paul, appeared, bearing harps and old Irish crowns and crosses. A painting followed, with a harp, supported by O'Connell at one side and Popo Pius in the other. Seven large flags of various colours, representing provincial societies, succeeded. Next came a picture of the Saviour, as the Good Shepherd, highly ornamented with flowers. This brought up the Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows and Foresters—societies which did not exist in O'Connell's time, and, as late impor tatioas from England, do not enjoy much favour from the Roman Catholic hierarchy. The men were most respectably attired, and wore sashes of green silk. A party of the Oddfellows were on horseback. The Foresters created peculiar amusement and interest from the fact that several theatrically-dressed individuals, in buskins, cocked hats, plumes, and part - coloured garments, entered into the composition of their display. Here the ecclesiastical portion of the demonstration began with the boys of St. Laurence O'Toole's and other Roman Catholic charity schools. Dr Spratt followed in a carriage at the head of the children of his Orphanage, and a number of Carmelite and other societies having passed, a personation of an old Irish harper appeared, in a coach, dressed in antique cos tume, bearing his harp, which, however, was unstrung and silent. Next a flag met the eye, showing Erin weeping at O'Conneli's urn. Flags bearing the portraits, apparently, of bishr ps with mitres and croziers. The Confraternities of St. Joseph, St. Saviour's, SS. Michael and John's, the Pri mitive Carmelite Order, and St. Paul's Confraternity, pre• ceded by carriages and four, with large banners of harps, surmounted by gilt crosses, and occasionally by shamrocks. Here seventy-two priests walked two and two, the general procession being four abreast; after them four teen carriages with bishops and priests, and again large flags exhorti ng t o an " encouragement o f nat i ve scu l ptors. '' Next came a large structure, fully thirty feet from the ground, raised on a carriage, with ascending steps, and two large vacant chairs at top, intended for speakers. The " guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary" bore a large religious banner, A number of trades here re-appeared—butchers, barbers, hatters, bakers, tailors (this body had a large ban ner with figures representing Adam and Eve, in purls na turalibus, saving the fig leaves), chimney cleaners, poul terers, silknien, saddlers, and sawyers. After another party of horsemen cemo tbo " Sons of Crispin"—always an important element in Dublin processions —who seemed to have been at greater pains than usual to make a gaudy show. A man in armour, very ill-favoured, and quite an exception to the general body, bestrode a sorry horse, but the remainder of the shoemakers' display com pensated for this weakness in their plan. The slaters exhibited a banner with Erin weeping. The naval arti ficers, a fine set of men, were well received by the crowd, which was particularly well behaved at the points where we saw the procession pass. The movement was very slow, and the cheering anything but marked, even when the stone appeared, raised on an elevated platform, some 20 feet or more from the ground, drawn by eight horses, and surmounted by two stalwart masons, in green sashes. At half-past two o'clock the corporation passed the City Hall, preceded by the macebearers and the city marshal. The Lord Mayor's secretary occupied the Lord Mayor's carriage in front. Next came the Lord Mayor, and his chaplain, in the celebrated gingerbread coach, drawn by six horses, and supported by the beefeaters. The gallow glasses, however, were absent. The aldermen and town councillors followed, in private carriages, and various nondescript vehicles. Several of them who had taken a prominent part, seemed to be disappointed at the frigidity of the masses. With the exception of the corporation, indeed, the nrocession was remarkably deficient in a representation of the higher classes of Roman Catholics. The corporation having there followed a train, not v er y l ong , o f cage and filed dj d au b Lng cars with women and children. The shops throughout the city have been all shut up to the time at which we write, and business has been entirely sus pended. On arrival at the site the Lord Mayor proceeded to a platform which had been erected for the occasion, and covered with awning. Sir John Gray then came forward amid much cheering, and read an address to the Right Hors. Peter Paul M'Swiney, Lord Mayor of Dublin, to which the Lord Mayor made a suitable reply. , ieft SHIP?. ING-THIS DAY, - yr LONDON, Aug. 10.—Wiod this day at noon—North West moderate breeze and fine weather , orth bui; a little cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 9.—Wind 5.11 7 .--ArriV ed—iiler Majesty's ship Orentes, from Bermuda. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday teeAfornicg•.,, Arrived, Aug. lc—Jane ' from Laurvig—Doro thea. rcu - Archangel—Rose, from Malmo—Lady Stanley, from C stadt—Norden, from Nyland. Sailed, Aug. 10—Sir Robert Peel, steamer, for 11 —Belgium, steamer, fur Ostend. DEAL, Wedndsday Mornincgr;),. Passed—Southampton, from New York--Es , L, 2 ss steamer, from Guernsey—both for London. -" Royal, of Ipswich, from the north for the east. r fo r Anchored—Jover Estaquief, for Havre—Alexande for Singapore—William for Newport---Anle"4' Port Phillip—all from London. Sailed—Tarquin, for Adelaide. FEMALE OF ART.— We—ar-t:glad to bsle received this aft e rnoon an intimation --signed behalf (3,11 of the committee of the Female School of lir " Queen's-square, Bloomsbury, by the chairman of that c_c l f: mittee, Anthony W. Thorold, M.A., and countersigned:r heldr Louisa Gann—announcing that til e 13' . cr 3 - at the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South lieosl,t,l°_, ton, on the 23d, 2.4 th, and =sth Yune, 1864, in bi ,l°ll l °‘ the funds of the Female School of Art, has h9rPi lt ) ; proved to have been so eminently successful in its rou as to have realised, together with donations received tlinci° the let of January hut, the turn of £2,412 ss. 2JI